The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-14
CHAPTER XXXII.

Inc SdndS OF lie were eDDlng ldSU, dnO
Mag tossed restlessly from side to side
moaning in her anguish and crying:
Have they come yit! Have they Gomez
Ican't die yit-good Lordsave me! can't
die till they come"
Jimmy kept faithful watch by the bedside
of his sick wife. She had not been good
wife to him-but she was his wife notwith-
standing, and it made him miserable to see
her lying there moaning with pain.
That she wanted to see Nora he did not
question--for did not his heart hunger for a
sight of her himself-his girleen and the
only joy his life had ever known.
But why should she want to see Lord Dudly
he could not imagine-but Mag craved to see
him, and Jimmy had sent for him as well as
Nora and was hourly expecting them.
A carriage drove up TO the door and Mag
listened eagerly, but when only her physi
clan entered she moaned with dissapoint-
mentI
The good man approached the couch and
felt his patients pulse.
''You needn't do that doctor" said Mag
I'm most gone and We can't save me-but
want to last till they come, so don't give
me anything to take away my senses-fur
! can't die till 1 see them" With these
words Mag fell back exhausted.
At first both the physician and Jimmy
thought she was dead, but she soon revived
and drank the stimulant placed to her lips
The sound of carriage wheels was again
heard, and this time the occupants proved to
be the right ones.
The two gentlemen and Nora, after greet
ing Jimmy, FASTENED to the bedside Of Mag
who was crying impatiently for them.
Nora kissed the woman whom she had
been taught to call mother as if there
was no difference in rank between them
and her sweet forgiving nature forgetting
that there was suspicion that this woman
had robbed her of her childhood's happi-
hess
Il thought ye'd never come! l thought
ye / be too late!" moaned Mag, looking at
tn three wildly and eagerly.
We did come, mother" replied Nora
"And here we are and my husband also"
is he herem asked Mag.
'Yes, mother"
''And him they calls Lord DudlyT
YES, here / am" said the gentleman. adj
vancing in sight.
''Umph!" exclaimed Mag, with satisfac-
ton.
And the docter-where may he beF" again
asked Mag.
He is here, wife" replied Jimmy.
Il want him to stay, too"
So saying Mag insisted OH the physician
standing by her should her strength decline
and to listen to what she had to say-she
then began:
Il call God TO witness that as | am a dy-
ing woman and l speak the truth that |
have confession TO make before | leave
this earth to face my Creator, and | want
We al to listen to all ] say. Twenty years
ago the wife of Lord Dndly was brought TO
TINS house during hard storm, and that
night we each had.a baby girl. My sister,
Nell Boyd, had been at service with noble
English family and had been turned off fur
stealin'. She knew the lady as was brought
here that night TO be the wife of the gen
teman she had lived with"
Here Mays strength was exhausted and
she fell back faint--the eager party feared
that She would die before confessing the
most important part-for all felt convinced
That She knew the storyof Nora's birth.
But the old woman soon revived, and after
drinking the stimulant the doctor put to her
lips resumed:
The lady died-and my baby died too"
My daughterm
''My dear, dear father" cried Lord Dud-
~ and Nora, now sure of her identity.
Mag resumed.
Nell wanted revenge and persuaded me
70 let her change the children and put my
uead Daby IN place or the living oie-ano
10 please her and because | was too sick to
prevent her consented-so while the gentle
man and nurses was busy bout the dead lady
Nell stole into the room where no one was
but Lord Dudly's sleeping baby. She took
us clothes off without waking It and put
them on my dead child. Then she put the
dead baby in the place of the living one,
and hurried from the room with Lord Dud-
Iys child before any one saw her, and from
s snat time to this nobody knew the differ
And Nora p cried Lord Dudly, bending
toward Mag eagerly.
us your darter.n replied Mag; 'she had
mark on her arm and there was O little
neck-chain round her neck that Nell III her
hurry forgot TO take off,
Then have no darter." cried Jimmy,
with wall of shame and despair.
No, yer alters said that gal werent
our'n, and now We know it, said Mag.
Jimmy sat down and burying his face
IN hls hands wcpt like child.
Nora went TO him and kneeling down be-
lore him took the hard hands, that had so
often stroked her golden head when she
VAS so lonely, in her own delicate palms, and
looking up into the weather-staired face
saadissasa go